Adult Self-Report

MOOD AND FEELINGS QUESTIONNAIRE: Long Version

This form is about how you might have been feeling or acting recently.

For each question, please check () how you have been feeling or acting in the past two
weeks.

If a sentence was not true about you, check NOT TRUE.

If a sentence was only sometimes true, check SOMETIMES.
If a sentence was true about you most of the time, check TRUE.

Score the MFQ as follows:

NOT TRUE = 0
SOMETIMES = 1
TRUE = 2

NOT SOME
To code, please use a checkmark () for each statement. TRUE
TRUE TIMES
1. I felt miserable or unhappy.

2. I didn’t enjoy anything at all.

3. I was less hungry than usual.

4. I ate more than usual.

5. I felt so tired I just sat around and did nothing.

6. I was moving and walking more slowly than usual.

7. I was very restless.

8. I felt I was no good anymore.

9. I blamed myself for things that weren’t my fault.

10. It was hard for me to make up my mind.

11. I felt grumpy and cross with other people.

12. I felt like talking less than usual.

13. I was talking more slowly than usual.

14. I cried a lot.

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15. I thought there was nothing good for me in the future.

16. I thought that life wasn’t worth living.

17. I thought about death or dying.

18. I thought my family would be better off without me.

19. I thought about killing myself.

20. I didn’t want to see my friends.

21. I found it hard to think properly or concentrate.

22. I thought bad things would happen to me.

23. I hated myself.

24. I felt I was a bad person.

25. I thought I looked ugly.

26. I worried about aches and pains.

27. I felt lonely.

28. I thought nobody really loved me.

29. I didn’t have any fun in any of my activities.

30. I thought I could never be as good as other people.

31. I did everything wrong.

32. I didn’t sleep as well as I usually sleep.

33. I slept a lot more than usual.

Copyright Adrian Angold & Elizabeth J. Costello, 1987; Developmental Epidemiology Program; Duke University